The family of a 10-year-old Linden girl has turned to the public for financial assistance to afford her the opportunity to undergo a lifesaving bone marrow transplant at the Artemis Health Institute in India.
Shakira Peters was diagnosed with sickle cell anemia in 2010 and since then she has had to be in the hospital every two months for blood transfusions, according to her mother, Nicola Peters.
At age six, she suffered two strokes and has been wheelchair bound since. She also has not been able to attend school due to her condition.
Peters said that Shakira’s eldest sister has been
